Recent Posts

When we look in awe at the world's greatest athletes
performing during the 2012 Olympics, it's hard to believe that
some of them have regular day jobs. It can be really expensive to
train for the Olympics, and not everyone has expensive
endorsements and funding to fall back on. Here are a couple
Olympians with surprising day jobs.

Chas Betts

Country: USASport: WrestlingAge: 25Job status: Betts is a motions designer, which
is a specialized field in graphics that deals with animations.
Check out his work on his design website.

Chi Yip Cheung

Country: Hong Kong, ChinaSport: JudoAge: 25Job status: Cheung is a full-time fireman but hopes to coach
judo in the future.

Lance Brooks

Country: USASport: Discus throwingAge: 28Job status: At one point, Brooks was
juggling seven jobs, including bartending and a high school
coaching gig. One of his most recent
jobs was in construction.

Urige Buta

Country: NorwaySport: Marathon runningAge 33Job status: He works
full-time as a janitor.

Debbie Capozzi

Country: USASport: SailingAge: 31Job status: She works for her
family's Italian ice shop in Long Island.

Jamel Herring

Country: USASport: BoxingAge: 26Job status: Herring spends most of his
time as a US Marines Corp sergeant at
the Camp Lejeune base in North Carolina.

Karen Hultzer

Country: South AfricaSport: ArcheryAge: 46Job status: Hultzer is a landscaper by
profession.

Race Imboden

Country: USASport: FencingAge: 19Job status: Imboden just finished
an internship at a record label but deejays in his spare time.

Gwen Jorgensen

Samyr Laine

Country: USASport: JumpingAge: 28Job status: Laine actually has
a law degree from Georgetown University
and passed the New York Bar
Examination, so he's allowed to practice as
a lawyer. However, he put his law career on
hiatus because of training for the Olympics.